quote: Originally posted by rawr itz errinn
nothing really relevant to this topic... but i thought i might say this. a group of scientists found a fossil of this one fish that they had never identified before. they did their little carbon dating thing and said it was a few million years old (or was it a few billion, i can't keep up with huge numbers)and claimed it to be extinct. anyhow, a short time later, they found the species of fish... that was living.
this happens all the time. I'm not sure what point you meant to make with this, and from your "irrelevence to the topic" bit i have no idea what you mean. But, this happens more often than you think. What does it prove? The lumpy shark was once thought to have been extinct becuase they had never seen one living before, and hoho, they found them living off the coast of new zealand. I don't see what this shows. I mean...so what? Whether or not something is extinct isn't contingent upon evolutionary fact or evidence...this is how things are deemed extinct...They cna't find them in living in the present time. Please tell me what you hope to accomplish through poniting this out. This is as connected with evolution as evolution is to religion.
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also another thing, the Bible talks about the Pleiades (spelling?)... The Pleiades are a constellation that consists of 7 (i think) stars. In the bible, it says that they were clusters and several starts made up "each one". meaning, from earth, we wouldn't be able to see the several tiny stars. each of those little stars were so close together that, from the naked eye, they looked like one star. and mind you... the Bible was written WAY before galileo and his invention of the telescope.
good for them. They figured it out...what does this prove? Am i supposed to discredit them to any sort of higher level thinking and believe there is no way they could have figured that out without divine revelation? Humans can figure out it's not just one star, it's not a radical idea and we did figure it out...wow. This seems so loosely connected to religion. It's just mentioned in the bible....so what.
Furthermore, i just took the IB HL physics test, and may i simply throw this out there: Rayleigh's Criterion.
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